[Mindinpieces]

actually I don't want to list how it makes me feel but I am just feeling yuck and disgusting from anxiety making me feel ill. I assume it is the anxiety because it's always when the anxiety get's too much these problems flare up.

[DFL678]

On occasion it makes me feel nauseous, but only in extreme situations.

Yes. I experience specific symptoms directly from general anxiety: my senses are heightened, my stomach feels upset, I feel lightheaded and sometimes dizzy or off balance, tension headaches. The hardest part of it, though, is a tie between my energy being zapped and experiencing the upset stomach (pains and / or gerd).

I is especially difficult if I have experienced a full on panic / anxiety attack though. The F/F goes into overdrive. After, I am just simply exhausted. All the worry, stress, fear, acute awareness it all feeds into itself, and in the aftermath (after I have calmed down), I feel like I have been hit by a bus. I have no energy, my body hurts, I feel weak and all I want to do is drink fluids and sleep. It definitely takes its toll.

[CastlesInTheAir]

heck yeah but the symptoms I hate the most is the tingling and numbness I get....it never feels normal especially when I feel it in my head

[theportraitifalady]

Originally Posted by Mindinpieces

actually I don't want to list how it makes me feel but I am just feeling yuck and disgusting from anxiety making me feel ill. I assume it is the anxiety because it's always when the anxiety get's too much these problems flare up.

Yes, anxiety has often made me feel excessively ill. In fact people compare me to that character in south park who throws up every time he sees that one girl. I get sick and throw up every time I have an anxiety attack. My body used this outlet for years but lately I have learned to channel it to other places (racing heart, shaking, etc). It is less messy and more tolerable.

This sucks but it is normal.

i do get ill with anxiety... feel sick, get un explained pains in my body that arn't usually their, go all cold (when the house is actually warm), etc etc

[Mindinpieces]

Thank You to all who have reply and shared, sorry I am not the only one who gets this I wouldn't wish any of these feelings onto anyone. It's horrible when other people don't understand and they just think you’re doing the whole oh I feel ill and blah blah blah. When actually although it's caused by what I am think, trying to counter my thoughts still doesn't counter my reactions my body just does that every time even though I try to keep the thoughts under bay. However each time I am made to feel worse for allowing this to occur or complaining about it, when others see this happen to me there like what's up with her get away we don't want to catch the plague or something, but then others are like you just need to stop worrying and get over it, it's all in your head, your fault. Of course all this does is strength the anxiety and makes it worse because I panic when it occurs desperately trying to stop it when it heightens it. I really do feel for you all, sending my love and hugs.

What I get is drained of energy, go extremely pale, sometimes bright red on checks when they burn... and I don't mean flushing I mean full on burning temperature come on all of a sudden although my figures go freezing cold at the same time which is really weird. I get extreme headaches, eyes burn and go all blurry, I shake sweat a lot, stomach upset is the worst thing of all for me, I feel really bad from that starting up and usually right just before I have to go and go something I need to be in the calmest frame of mind for which actually send me into a frenzy. My body aches all over and it feels like someone caved into my bones sometimes, I get stiff freeze up, sometimes I go to speak yet no words come out and I am in a fit of tears because my brain just cut me off from speaking and wanting to stay what I need to get out. I can barely think and any think takes all of my energy away. I haven't slept properly in days even months and only fall asleep in early hours of morning when my body finally shut itself down. There are many more but all of these thing even though some are not physical end up making me feel ill because of frustration and negative self-defeating hatred I hold of myself for allowing them to happen and affect me and my life and so on this goes because it all feeds back into one big thing which is just making me feel very ill for a while now. I have got to the worse I have ever felt.

(I forgot about the throwing up part. I was under so much stress at one point, I used to vomit in the morning while trying to get ready for work. Also, I can totally relate to that tingling feeling. In the extremities and stomach which is an indicator that a panic is coming on, making it worse, the shaking, and then it spreading and feeling really cold. It is horrible. I think I blocked it out because it was so frightening. Which of course adds another layer to the panic *sigh* also voices and sounds are so much louder and if I am in a crowded place, I just want to get away. Get away to quiet, and safety).

[Open Eyes]

(((Mindinpieces)))

All the things you are talking about are normal to having anxiety issues. Included with that can also be "hyperventilation", I did alot of that at your age.

You need to practice some calming methods and learn how to help yourself stop the build up of cortizol that makes it hard to calm down. It sounds like you unknowingly feed into the anxiety and suffer the consequences.

By distracting your mind that slows down your breathing and racing thoughts, you allow the brain to shut off the cortizol buildup. When you are thinking and doing something that has no fight/flight signals to it that allows the brain lets go of the cortizol and it backs off and discipates.

When we are young children and get upset or frightened we cry and shiver and stress.
Our mothers or caregivers are supposed to respond to that with gently touching and a calm soothing voice which slowly distracts our brains to a calm so that the cortizol stops building up. As we are growing and learning about our environment we can encounter surprizes that can startle us, so again a mother is supposed to be there to help us calm down, feel safe and once again "relax". But as children we also begin to learn "structure" and with that, we calm down because we can now "predict" and "expect" and our brains and follow that structure rythm.

If for some reason we do not have that presence to help us calm down, we can struggle to understand how to do that process, which in turn can bring us future challenges with learning how to "calm down" when we are stressed. And if we do not have structure that too can challenge us as well.

For a long time it was thought that it was better to allow children to cry for a long time and learn how to finally calm down and just go to sleep. I personally never believed that, and I always rocked my daughter and let her totally relax and then fall asleep. I also read to her from a very early age which gave her pictures and things to think about that were "pleasant" while she slept. Basically I felt it was better for her to have a structure that included touching cuddling and calm interactions.

So, it is quite possible that you may have had a mother that followed the rule of "just let your child cry, don't go and coddle her/him, let them learn that when you put them down, that means "go to sleep". So now you struggle with "relaxing" and what that means is you need to learn how to finally "self sooth" and help your body "calm down".

By my reading to my daughter and teaching her how to relax way back when, she often still reads at night before bed and then goes to sleep. And, she often reads to relax as well. And what she has learned to do is "distract her brain" so it calms down and doesn't "stress".

One of the hardest times when it comes to "anxiety" is in the late teens and early 20's. The reason for that is "structure" change. Human beings "like structure" in their lives, it brings a sense of "predictablity" and we do like that, it allows us to "relax" and even disassociate because we are in a "routine".

When students enter into their "freshman" year of college, they begin to "panic". All of a sudden that old structure is gone and they are thrust into a much "freer" schedule where they are also making "choices". Not only that but, the more intimate environment of a "high school" is dramatically changed to being in a much larger environment where there is very "little" familiarity.

Most students are "intimidated" by this and often want to "run home" or find their way back to a more "predictable environment". And because they now can experience "anxiety" that can really "challenge" them, they begin to "self doubt" and even panic.
So there can be quite an adjustment period until they become more comfortable with having more space and a very different kind of "structure".

(((MIP))), your saying that you should know how to "deal" with "anxiety" by now is not really being "fair to yourself". And the truth is, you are not alone with this kind of struggle either. If you learn to finally understand what this really means and work on now learning how to better adjust, that some of the anxiety is normal and that you "can" learn ways to self sooth and control it, you will do much better.

The 20's is all about slowly learning how to adjust to structure changes and become more relaxed in knowing that there are going to be gradual changes and that you "can" learn to slowly adjust to this. If you learn that you don't have to consider "anxiety and panic" as "punishment you should fear" and instead consciously work on understanding what it means and working on ways to finally adapt, you will do much better.

So, what you need to do is find ways to help yourself build a more personal sense of structure. That can include your set scheduled classes, allowing time for study/homework, looking for quiet places you can accomplish that, like the library and also spend time working out, jogging the campus or other "physical" activities. College years and the twenties is the beginning of learning "self management" and "self predictable structure patterns" that you can slowly settle into that again helps your brain also settle down, and even do the normal "dissassociation" it likes to do from time to time.

Understand that "dissasociation" is something the brain likes to do from time to time, we all do it, and the brain often likes to just wander off and relax sometimes. When we don't have structure that can bring us "predictablity", our brains are often constantly "alert" and that tends to tire the brain out. And when we are constantly on "alert" and don't understand we are lacking "predictable structure" the brain can begin to experience "anxiety".

Also you need to understand that when we are in our 20's and are not yet sure of what kind of life we want to lead, we can become very stressed because we don't see a "predictable structure" yet. And many people in their 20's can become restless, feel like a failure, experience low self esteem, and not quite understand "why".

It is important to understand "life stessors" and these are presented anytime we change a "structure/routine" that we become accustomed to that the human brain likes. A change can be a move to a new home, loss of a job, change of a job position, even change of a car or anything that interupts our "structure pattern".
So, what you have to do is build a new structure and make sure you include things that you have done in your past where your brain can say, "yes I know this, I can do this" and it begins to settle down and "relax" into that activity.

Also, remember, that whenever you begin any kind of "structure" change, it takes the brain a while to learn that new structure and finally "adapt" and then slowly calm down into that "new rythm". And this goes for "anything new" that we are taking on with our brains. A new computer, a new car, the latest phone technology, a new boss, a new apartment in a new surrounding, anything different takes time for the human brain to adjust to and once again settle into a rythm.

A structure or rythm can be where ever you are in life. If you have not yet made a decision and are researching and learning, then "that becomes your present structure". And you can always make sure you do things that you have used in your past that are "predictable and calming". For example, if you used to like to window shop, then put that in your schedule, just make sure you don't lament about the old structure you did that in, just let yourself enjoy that activity the way you always did. Do not allow yourself to think that anything you have done in your past that you enjoyed and mastered somehow is not permitted unless you are in that "old structure pattern". Keep learning about the things "you love to do and feel good about" and make sure you "disguard" any sense of loss, and open our mind up to moving forward, learning, and adapting towards constant structure patterns that help you feel more "relaxed".

Open Eyes

[Feral_Cat_Lover]

Originally Posted by Mindinpieces

actually I don't want to list how it makes me feel but I am just feeling yuck and disgusting from anxiety making me feel ill. I assume it is the anxiety because it's always when the anxiety get's too much these problems flare up.

I get physically sick to my stomach, start shaking, get dizzy, get headaches and my neck and shoulders get so tense that they hurt (which is not good because I'm trying to recover from an injury in that region brought on by a car accident).
((Hugs))

[jojo1988]

omgosh yes!!!
I feel so sick to my stomach i have had to miss work. I've felt sick to my stomach at work because I start to worry about things, but I try to tell myself they are just cute lil' butterflies because I work with my crush. It helps me to try to trick my mind into thinking it's because my crush is there and not because of anything else. I try to turn the negative anxiety into positive anxiety.

[retro_chic]

Originally Posted by theportraitifalady

I get sick and throw up every time I have an anxiety attack.

I actually started a thread about this since I think that is what happened to me last week. I'm still not 100% sure though because it is the first time it happened to me. Do your physical symptoms diminish after you through up? That's what happened to me which is making me confused as to whether it was anxiety or not.